OOP: Harry's Career Choice- Mentor

[arithonne]

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Am I the only one who doesn't think that Harry will end up choosing 
to be an Auror?  

Considering that Harry's reaction to the prophecy's kill or be killed 
clause (murder or be murdered), I don't really see him as the Auror 
type.  Also, given that, so far, his life has consisted of fighting 
the dark forces, I can't imagine him wanting this to be his career.  
He'd never really considered any kind of career (potentially barring 
professional Quidditch player) before Crouch-as-Moody suggested that 
he would make a good Auror.  Given that Harry has received so little 
praise in his lifetime, he's likely to respond more forcefully to it 
than your average person, a fact that probably contributed to his 
hero complex.  Harry also is already showing signs that he's fed up 
of all the fighting; how much more pronounced is this gowing to grow 
now that he's going to be feeling a very real obligation to be the 
hero?

Within fanon, Harry's careers choices generally seem to be Auror, 
Unspeakable, professional Seeker, or DADA/flying teacher.  Since 
Harry isn't really confortable with his fame, I can't picture him 
being either a professional Quidditch player or a teacher, especially 
once that fame grows following Voldemort's final defeat.  Discounting 
a career as an Auror for the reasons given above, we're left with 
Unspeakable.  Given what we've learned about the Department of 
Mysteries in OotP (research), it doesn't seem that that will be a 
likely career either.  

So, where does that leave us?  

Taking into account that Harry and Voldemort seem to be two sides of 
the same coin, strangely similar with at the same time complete 
opposites, it would seem to me that Harry's path would be to be the 
creater/healer to LV's destroyer.  Also, given how very little we 
know about careers in the wizarding world, and JKR's love of making 
seemingly insignifacant details crucial in later books, and that we 
know you need an E in NEWTs in DADA, Potions, Transfigurations, 
Charms, and Herbology to be a Healer, I think that it's very likely 
that Harry will end up choosing to be a Healer.

Any other opinions out there?

Arithonne